Brianna MacDonald was only 13 years old when she was found dead of a suspected overdose in a B.C. homeless encampment last month. Her grieving parents say that the province refused their repeated pleas to force her into treatment, providing her instead with free needles and pamphlets on how to use drugs “safely,” and are now calling for reform.

This tragedy was the inevitable crescendo of the B.C. NDP’s laissez-faire drug policies, under which enablement has consistently been prioritized over rehabilitation. If Premier David Eby has any decency, he should listen to MacDonald’s parents and immediately permit the involuntary treatment of drug-addicted minors so that no other child suffers as she did.